“This is the cover image, which in the end was used for a poster for a whole series of work I did for a collective called Camerawork in the 1970s. I made an exhibition about what had happened in Chile before and since the military coup. The coup happened in September 1973 when General Pinochet, backed by the CIA and big business, overthrew Chile’s Constitutional Government, which was called the Popular Unity Government, led by Salvador Allende. Allende died in the coup, and General Pinochet started a military regime that went on for 17 years. I did a whole history of Chile, made as a travelling exhibition that was laminated in plastic and sent around in trains by what was called Red Star, which was the way Camerawork hired out exhibitions. The image was put up in places like community centres and town halls, it even went into a laundrette somewhere. It was a way to get ideas out.” – Peter Kennard